Nearly 1,500 nurses will go to work abroad in 2023. According to Florentino Pérez Raya, president of the CGE, the main reason for this high mobility is none other than the job insecurity that the sector is experiencing and within it, temporary employment and poor working conditions. Far from the 8% set as the objective by the Government, the temporary employment rate among nurses does not fall below 30% and despite the stabilization OPEs, it continues to be a burden. Furthermore, as provided by the General Nursing Council (CGE) 8,119 nurses left their province to go to another province or autonomous community (6,646) or to another country (1,473).
An example is Rosa, also known as @nurserubia on TikTok, a maternal-child nurse who visited Norway a few months ago, and who later ended up working there temporarily. Through her social networks, where she accumulates almost half a million followers, she shares her daily life in the Hospital where she is and In one of the latest videos he has published, he has revealed the salary he has in the Nordic country, something that has generated great controversy and commotion, among other things due to the enormous difference between both countries.
The publication has received nearly a thousand comments, and in it it states that nurses in Norway They usually earn between 54,000 and 64,000 euros per year, something that has once again put the debate on the conditions of these workers in our country on the table. While some have maintained that this is something normal since the cost of living standards is much higher than that of Spain, others have stated that the difference in salary is much greater and that the work of nurses in our country is not seen adequately rewarded nor sufficiently recognized.
Likewise, the council has denounced the precariousness in which these professionals find themselves, who often have to face temporary contracts that follow one another, and with little capacity for conciliation: Nurses who live linking contracts, often for days and even hours, see how their personal life is affected and it is impossible for them to reconcile, stand out from the CGE. They also remember that many times giving up the conditions offered to them leads to a penalty that transfers them to the last position in the employment pool, something that the Council calls totally unfair.
The main destination of Spanish nurses
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The Nordic country is the main hope of these workers, who choose to leave their respective places of origin in search of better working conditions. According to the CGE, The country received 336 requests for the documentation necessary to practice the profession outside of Spain. They are followed by the United States (226), the United Kingdom (92), Ireland (60), the Netherlands (43), Australia (41), France (40), Switzerland (39), Canada (22), Belgium (13), Saudi Arabia (11) and Portugal (11).
Spanish nurses are in high demand in the most developed countries in the world. Our training and international prestige make them very valuable to any healthcare system. But this is making us lose highly trained human capital, criticized Pérez, who added: And in exchange we are incorporating into our health system nurses from Latin America. In 2021, the latest data available, the title was approved for 305 non-EU nurses.
Furthermore, At the national level, differences in working conditions between communities also leave a rather unequal picture. That is why while Spain’s ratio is 6.3, there are some regions that have two points above the average, such as Navarra, and others with almost two points below, such as the case of Murcia. The communities that have suffered the most declines have been Castilla y León, Melilla, the Balearic Islands and Ceuta.
As the general secretary of the CGE, Diego Ayuso, points out: It is no coincidence that the region that has the most nurses is also the one that offers the best conditions to its professionals. But it not only affects the salary, if you work in a service with 10 other colleagues, your care burden is not the same as if you work with half as many. Furthermore, he adds: This has a very clear translation in the quality of care. If there are not enough nurses, the quality of care is worse.
Some of the reasons behind these differences lie in the types of contracts and the recognition of specialties, which are not found in all health systems. For example, There are places where all five specialty categories are included, while others only recognize one or two.
Eight out of ten nurses suffer from burnout syndrome
On the other hand, it is worth noting that after the COVID-19 pandemic, the report carried out by the World Health Organization (WHO) entitled What the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed came to the conclusion that another of the factors that had also had an impact on the escape of these workers was the overload and care tension that caused the burnt-out syndrome o burnout in english In fact, eight out of ten nurses in our country admitted to suffering from this syndrome.
Finally, according to another recent study published by the SATSE nurses union, nine out of ten professionals in the sector felt exhausted and stressed by their work, and 90% also reported suffering from nervousness, anxiety and sleep disturbances. In addition, eight out of ten felt alterations in appetite.
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